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Don’t miss this festive evening of performance and music at the Jersey Opera House. Linda Rose Parkes, launches her third collection, Familiars, alongside readings from the floor and guest appearance from artist and publisher, Emily Johns, reading from the work of her father, the late John Rety, poet, and founder of Hearing Eye. Friday 30th [ … ]

A great review essay by Joan Michelson of Peter Phillips’ new pamphlet in London Grip. “With his low-keyed, understated but surprising manner, his subtle manipulation of the spoken, unobtrusive image and spare narrative, Peter Phillips buries bullets (if not land mines). They lie in the text like his snowdrops who didn’t see daylight for years and [ … ]

Poetry workshops led by Hearing Eye poet and regular Torriano host, Lisa Kelly. Saturdays 1-5pm. September 24th; October 15th; November 19th. £19 /£15 per day. Book with Lisa by email: lisakellyuk[at]yahoo[dot]com ‘From Page to Stage Poets’ led by Lisa Kelly. A unique opportunity for up to six poets to develop a set of poems for [ … ]

Hearing eye has just published four poems by Peter Phillips are from a series ‘Saying it with Flowers’, that makes imaginative connections between lives of plants and human actions. The poems, in settings of fear and danger, inspired the composer David Loxley-Blount’s composition Duoset, four pieces for organ and solo instrument. The first performances take [ … ]

led by Hearing Eye poet Lisa Kelly at Torriano Meeting House, London NW5. Saturdays 1-5pm. September 24th; October 15th; November 19th. £19 /£15 per day. Book with Lisa by email: lisakellyuk[at]yahoo[dot]com ‘From Page to Stage Poets’ led by Lisa Kelly. A unique opportunity for up to six poets to develop a set of poems for performance [ … ]

Coming in September 2016, Survival Cider a new book by June English. “June English’s beautifully-written poems are moving, outspoken and ruefully witty. They explore new depths below everyday life: making pastry, or addressing the ‘unwanted visitor’, illness. Though English’s work never flinches from accidents, time, ‘how it all slides away’, it is also lit by [ … ]

Out in time for Paul Birtill’s reading at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 7 November 2015. We are pleased to publish the book that John Cooper Clarke describes as “Bleedin’ fabulous”;the poetry of which Harry Eyres in the Financial Times says “Time and again his dark humor hits the mark.”

Join us at the poetry publishers event of the year. Come and pick up our new catalogue and browse new books and backlist. Hearing Eye will be sharing a stall with Dinah Livingstone’s Katabasis – good books, pamphlets and conversations promised. This year’s Poetry Book Fair will be held on Saturday 26th September 2015 at [ … ]

Now open for entries! Torriano Poetry Competition 2015 FIRST PRIZE £250 | SECOND PRIZE £150 | THIRD PRIZE £75 Adjudicator: Ann Drysdale ALL POEMS WILL BE READ BY THE ADJUDICATOR No entry form required • Poems should be written in English, to a maximum of 40 lines, typed on a single side of A4 paper. [ … ]

A Workshop with Eve Pearce (LGSM Speech & Drama) Tuesday 7 July 2015, 7pm – 9.30pm Reduce your stage nerves, project with presence and let your poems speak! For poets, and anyone wishing to increase their confidence in public speaking. Using your own and other work by well known poets, we will work on: Breathing [ … ]